Cate Blanchett — so beloved by this 12 months’s San Sebastian Movie Pageant that she was featured on the occasion’s official poster — was despatched a sentimental video message by fellow actor George Clooney as she accepted her Donostia Award Saturday night time.
The Australian star, identified for her roles in movies such as The Aviator, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and extra just lately, the Oscar-nominated Tár, was acknowledged on the Spanish coast for her achievements in movie.
“Fucking George!” Blanchett remarked as she wiped away mascara following her standing ovation at San Sebastian’s Kursaal Theater. Clooney had mentioned within the video: “I want to say that there’s acting as a profession, and then there’s acting as an art, and we recognize that art… I’ve been lucky enough to direct you and to act with you, and you always make everyone around you feel lucky that we get a chance to work with someone who is so gifted and kind, and I’m proud to call you a friend.”
“I wish I was there,” the Wolfs star continued. “I can’t be there because I’m in Venice right now. I wasn’t asked. And I can’t be there because I’m in Venice, and I’ve been drinking. And I have no pants on,” he added, prompting theater-wide laughter.
Blanchett spoke to the group after accepting the award from her Disclaimer director Alfonso Cuarón: “As an Australian working abroad, I’ve had the great privilege of transcending many bodies. And my work has taken me to central Asia, to Europe, the Americas, to China, it has taken me all over the world and here now in Basque country, at this extraordinarily vibrant festival… I’m so very honored to receive this award. Thank you San Sebastian. Thank you.”
She went on, declaring what she thinks is a “worry” in the intervening time: “It’s bewildering to me that there seems to be a lot of certainty, a lot of righteousness and a lack of doubt in the world, when, in fact, the world is a deeply uncertain place and to creative life, it’s fuelled with uncertainty and doubt. It’s the DNA of how you begin any project. You have to humble yourself… I worry that we’re try finding answers too quickly, and it’s this uncertainty, I think, that drives me on.”
Blanchett has racked up greater than 200 acknowledgments and accolades throughout her long-spanning profession, together with two Academy Awards from six nominations. She has received 4 BAFTAs and 4 Golden Globes.
It’s her first go to to the occasion in San Sebastian, Spain, going down Sept. 20-28, although the competition has screened a variety of her movies earlier than, together with Babel (2007) and Veronica Guerin (2003). They’ve competed for the highest prize, the Golden Shell.
Her honor Saturday night time marks the second time an Australian actor has been given the competition’s highest honorary award after Hugh Jackman in 2013. This 12 months, Spaniards Javier Bardem and Pedro Almodovar, whose movie The Room Subsequent Door scored a big 17-minute standing ovation in Venice earlier this month, additionally collected Donostia Awards on the fest.
